One More Strange Island

Odysseus finishes his story and after a party, he is slowly rowed back to Ithaka on a bard ship. After bargaining with Zeus, Poseidon decides to mildly punish Odysseus because he is upset that his ride home was so easy. Athena covers Ithaka with a mist to confuse Odysseus when he wakes up. She appears to him as a sheperd, and he makes up a story to tell her, which impresses her. She then reveals her identity to him as a tall, beautiful woman, and says she will always be beside him in his times of trouble. odysseus begs her to fight beside him in the approaching battle. She disguises him as an old beggar. This way, no one will suspect of who he really is.